Global Patent Index - EP 0919988 A2

EP 0919988 A2 19990602 - Speech playback speed change using wavelet coding

Title (en)

Speech playback speed change using wavelet coding

Title (de)

Änderung der Sprachabspielgeschwindigkeit mittels Wavelet-Kodierung

Title (fr)

Altération de la vitesse de reproduction d'un signal de parole utilisant un codage par ondelettes

Publication

EP 0919988 A2 19990602 (EN)

Application

EP 98309262 A 19981112

Priority

US 98045197 A 19971128

Abstract (en)

A method of speeding up playback of a digitised audio signal without raising the pitch and without introducing discontinuities in the speech signal, comprises sub-band coding (SBC) consecutive blocks of the audio signal with standard SBC or wavelet compression to derive frames of data. Next periodic adjacent pairs of the frames are dropped to leave a stream of remaining frames. A sped up approximation of the digitised audio signal is then reconstructed by sub-band decoding consecutive remaining frames. The method can also be used to slow speech playback by replicating, rather than dropping, adjacent pairs of frames. <IMAGE>

IPC 1-7

G10L 3/02; G10L 7/06

IPC 8 full level

G10L 21/04 (2006.01); G10L 19/02 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G10L 21/04 (2013.01 - EP US); G10L 19/0204 (2013.01 - EP US); G10L 25/27 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0919988 A2 19990602; EP 0919988 A3 20000105; EP 0919988 B1 20040303; CA 2248514 A1 19990528; DE 69822085 D1 20040408; DE 69822085 T2 20040722; US 6009386 A 19991228

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 98309262 A 19981112; CA 2248514 A 19980930; DE 69822085 T 19981112; US 98045197 A 19971128